Concord - Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Dec. 2, 1914 [December 2, 1914] Wea [Weather]
Stormy
Densely cloudy & more or less
foggy, also, with fine mist-like
rain falling ceaselessly.
  Left Farm at 8.15 & motored
to Cambridge via Concord village &
Lexington & Trapelo roads. The
only birds seen along the way
were three House Sparrows.
  Reached Museum at 9.22 & went 
to work at once on Arctic Three toed
Woodpecker story. Stuck to it
all day but made no satisfactory
progress save by somewhat
improving a page already written
& composing almost a page of new
matter.
  We had Victrola music after
both luncheon & dinner. At 9.15
P.M. Lizzy began reading to me
from a Crawford story that we
began on last summer.
  Many purple ladies delights in 
full bloom at Concord yesterday

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Dec. 3, 1914 [December 3, 1914] Wea [Weather]
I cease smoking. Perfect.
Clear, calm, very warm for season.
altogether a day closely like day
before yesterday.
  In Garden: a Chickadee (heard), 2
Golden-crested Kinglets (together in elms
over driveway), a Flicker (in elm over
Sparks Street), 3 Jays, A Downy
Woodpecker (heard), 2 Crows (flying over)
  Spent most of day in Museum
copying bird notes from this diary
into large (Concord - Garden) record books.
C. [Caroline] began type writing in Museum this
morning. She first copied my two
pages about Three-toed Woodpecker & 
then turned her attention to
transcribing George Jeffersons war letters.
  i did not feel in the mood for
composing anything so did not attempt
it. I have not smoked since yesterday
afternoon, giving it up, at least
temporarily, because of renewed & very
extreme mouth soreness. The want of it 
does not trouble me thus far except by
making me feel sleepy & stupid.